Amanda Aronson

Amanda is a 2019 graduate of the Emerge Connecticut program and was recently elected to the West Hartford Board of Education in 2019.
Amanda lives in West Hartford with her husband, Scott, and their two children, Nathaniel and Maia. The Aronsons are current members of the Hall High and King Philip Middle School communities and are past Bugbee School parents. Amanda is principal of Aronson Consulting, which supports nonprofit and educational communities with specialized research and needs assessment, strategic planning, marketing, development, and interim staff support. She is most often called upon to launch an effort, or to take an existing effort and grow it with attention to proper structure and sustainability.
An active community member, Amanda has served on local nonprofit boards and is currently a Board Ambassador for the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (HFPG). She is on the Steering Committees of the HFPG’s Catalyst Endowment Fund, as well as the Governor’s Council on Women & Girls’, where she supports two subcommittees: Education/STEM and Economic Opportunity & Workforce Equity. Amanda is a trained Docent at the New Britain Museum of American Art, where she provides tours for students ages 3-23. Additionally, she is a longtime volunteer with the Bridge Family Center, the organization which serves as the Youth Service Bureau for the town of West Hartford and operates both their Teen Center and Family Resource Center. Amanda became Director for Marketing and Communications at the Bridge in 2016 and worked with the organization until early 2019, which gave her a valuable perspective from which to view both the needs of families in West Hartford, and the ways in which their needs are addressed by the school system and the community at large.